Augusta Editor Explains Why He Dropped Coulter Column

[flowomo]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002878146

By Dave Astor and Greg Mitchell
Published: July 24, 2006

NEW YORK -- The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle has become the second newspaper to drop Ann Coulter's column this month, explaining that her "stridency" had crossed the line.

Coulter, of Universal Press Syndicate, is being replaced by another conservative columnist -- Michelle Malkin of Creators Syndicate.

"We're a conservative editorial page," Chronicle Editorial Page Editor Michael Ryan told E&P today, noting that the paper also runs columnists such as Robert Novak, George Will, and Walter Williams along with liberal Ellen Goodman.

Ryan emphasized that the paper wouldn't have dropped Coulter if she had made "one or two" controversial comments. "But it came to the point where she was the issue rather that what she was writing about," he said, adding that Coulter's reputation has become mixed even among conservatives....

[niyad]

1. so he's replacing her with malkin, who is almost equally offensiive and

"strident"? and the point of this would be????

[Gman]

2. Replaced a known sociopath

with a psychotic nut.

[dweller]

3. Faux news paper?

i see they are 4 to 1, conservative to liberal.

fair and balanced?

or are we Liberals just so informative, astute and TOUGH, that they need 4 to counter and convince the clueless?

dp

[tinfoilinfor2005]

4. That's like getting an exterminator to rid your house of cockroaches

and replacing them with fleas and lice. Makes no sense.

[samsingh]

5. you'd think they'd learn

oh, yes, they're idiot conservatives.

i have no respect left for any conservatives that in any way support bush's illegal, UnAmerican regime.